Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reciting his long affection for Georgia and his calling of a conference of Southerners to study the South as "the nation's No. 1 economic problem'' (TIME, July 18), Franklin Roosevelt said: "If the people of the State of Georgia want definite action . . . they must send to . . . Congress Senators and Representatives who are willing to stand up and fight night and day for Federal statutes drawn to meet actual needs...
...criticizing the committee or its staff but I regret to see that almost all the information it is getting comes from TVA witnesses, who come on the stand and tell us what they want to tell us, except for what additional facts members of the committee can get out of them by questions...
With time running out for fulfillment of many military observers' three-month-old prophecy of a Spanish Rightist victory before summer's end, Newsinterpreter Walter Lippmann wirelessed to the New York Herald Tribune from Paris that Great Britain and France had now decided that they want a "military stalemate" in Spain, feel that it offers the "best chance of a constructive solution of the Spanish problem." Pontificated Pundit Lippmann: "Once it were made clear to both sides in Spain that neither would be able to conquer the other, an armistice might be arranged...
...Government has no broadcasting station of its own. When U. S. officials want to broadcast their departmental achievements, they have to go to the Washington studios of the major networks. If the Government should announce that it was about to set up its own radio station, political razors might begin flying through the air. But last week, when the Government opened its first broadcasting studio in Washington, all was quiet along the Potomac. For the studio is not a station. Its programs must be wired to Washington's commercial stations, broadcast through regular commercial channels...
...Angelo Rossi went Actress Gertrude Lawrence (Susan and God), where she received the key to the city. Formalities over, Mayor Rossi told Miss Lawrence his next date was at the Examiner's Hole-in-One Tournament, asked her to go along. Off they drove to Lincoln Park. "I want to play," said she, "but what shall I do? I'm wearing high heels." While a large gallery gaped and tittered, Actress Lawrence stepped up to the tee of the 184-yd. eighth, removed her shoes, borrowed a spoon, took a healthy swat at the ball. It fell short...